Luke Engleback

Tunbridge Wells

Luke Engleback CMLI AoU is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Ecourbanist with over 30 years experience of environmental design and planning in the UK and abroad, and he founded Studio Engleback, an award winning consultancy, in 1996. An inquisitive practitioner working at all scales from micro to macro, Luke is involved in research and has taught for many years in architecture schools in the UK, Norway and Estonia. He has presented papers and taken part in symposia, majoring on Ecourbanism (a whole system approach to urbanism and planning) in Europe, the USA, and New Zealand. He is currently vice chairman of the South Downs National Park Design Panel, also sitting on the South East Regional Design Panel in the UK and the Landscape Institute’s Policy Committee. He is additionally a Board Member and former Chairman of the Landscape Foundation, an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism and active member of the Sustainable Water Industry Group SWIG. Studio Engleback’s work currently includes a diverse range of proposals including a Biophilic retrofitting of public realm under and adjacent to the elevated Westway viaduct in London, a major urban renewal site in East London, a ‘green’ low impact design neighbourhood in Kigali (Rwanda), a cultural centre in Bamiyan (Afghanistan), a passive haus co-housing scheme in Essex, and village extensions in sensitive Sussex landscapes. Luke contributed an essay on 21st garden cities to the recently published book – ONCE IN A LIFETIME – City-building after disaster in Christchurch. Following the devastating Earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, the city is to be the first of 100 Resilient Cities in the Rockefeller Foundation Resilient Cities Programme.